Extreme Vocabulary
Very dry, with little rainfall
Arid
To catch animals that live in water
fish
The largest hot desert in North Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
Fill the gap: “Have you ___ seen the Northern Lights?
ever
Choose the correct pronoun: “The Sahara is a desert ___ is in Africa.”
that / which?
Extremely cold
frigid
To move from place to place without a permanent home
roam
The deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
Mariana Trench
Which adverb makes a life-experience sentence negative?
never
Non-defining clauses are set off by this punctuation
commas
Very large and wide open
vast
To collect wild plants for food
forage
The tallest mountain above sea level
Mount Everest?
True or False: In questions, ever comes after the subject but before the past participle.
Join: “Greenland is remote. It is mostly ice.
Greenland, where is mostly ice, is remote
Dangerous or unfriendly to life
hostile
To look after and move groups of animals, e.g., camels
herd
The world’s largest ice-covered island, part of Denmark
greenland
Give a present-perfect question using ever about deep-sea trenches.
“Have you ever dived into the Mariana Trench?”
Name a relative pronoun used for people.
who?
So hot it feels burning
searing
To make handmade items using skill
craft
A desert spanning China and Mongolia with hot and cold extremes
Gobi Desert
ewrite with never: “I visited a harsh desert as a child
I have never visited a harsh desert
Identify the relative clause in: “Mount Everest, which rises above 8 800 m, challenges climbers.”
which rises above 8 800 m.